Monsoon Discussions

2007

21 November: Sequence of  GASP 850 E Tropical analyses and discussion

Northern Hemisphere monsoon:  multiple vortices / "monsoon-rolling up into balls" phenomenon: Sept 22-23.
Movie of GASP 850 analyses: 5 Sept - 25 Sept
Hovmoller of v-wind averaged between 15-20 N
7 - day OLR mean and anomaly 18 - 24 September
Matt Wheeler animation of equatorial waves
    (captured from real-time diagnostics: http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/clfor/cfstaff/matw/maproom/OLR_modes/amaps.all.50to20.gif  )

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2006: January - February:  Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWPICE)
Daily Synoptic Overview (by John McBride BMRC, Jim Benedict, Luke Van Roekel (Colorado State University)

Day 0: 20 January
Day 1:  21 January
Day 2: 22 January
Day 2: 22 January: Special Report on MJO status
Day 3: 23 January
Day 4: 24 January
Day 5: 25 January
Day 6 26 January
Day 7 27 january
Day 8 28 January
Day 9  29 january: Short Report and Radar loops for monsoon-depression/"Landphoon"
Day 9 29 January
                DARWIN RADIOSONDE LOOP TO ACCOMPANY DAY 9 REPORT
Day 10 30 January
Day 11 31 January
Day 12 01 February
                   Radar loop to accompany Day 12 report.
Day 13 02 February
Day 14 03 February
Day 15 04 February
Day 16 05 February
Day 17 06 February


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2005 November 18:   West Pacific Double ITCZ
 

2004 May11:  n = 1 Equatorial Rossby wave in Indian Ocean  : Possible role in early establishment of monsoon westerlies
    Replies and further discussion:  Cleland, Wheeler, Sobel

2004 April 20:  Convection on dateline, Vortices across Indian Ocean, absence of east African long-rains, layering of tropical atmosphere
 
 

2004 February 04:  Influence of MJO on rainfall in Indonesian monsoon

2004 February 04 Southern Hemisphere summer monsoon : High latitude of the monsoon trough, vortices embedded in monsoon trough, large diurnal modulation of convection over Indonesia, apparent large influence by the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) this season.

2003 November 5  A Flooding event in Northern Sumatra
2003 October 7  The state of the monsoon
2003 July 23  The state of the monsoon system
2003 July 9  The state of the monsoon system
                                                               (Including comment by Prof Murakami, and reply)
2003 Jun 30  John McBride The State of the monsoon system
2003 June 19  Sulochana Gadgil    Re: [Monsoon] Large scale deep convection lined perpendicular to monsoon current